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🗓️ 28 June 2001
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0:00.0 | Thanks for down learning the In Our Time podcast. For more details about In Our Time and for our terms of use, please go to BBC.co.uk. |
0:09.0 | I hope you enjoy the program. |
0:11.0 | Hello, imagine being inside the Clafé floor on the left bank of Paris in the 1930s. |
0:16.6 | Sartre in the corner, Simone de Beauvoir on the way, Camus strolling up the boulevard Saint-Germain. |
0:22.1 | Cigarette spoke, strong coffee, |
0:23.7 | the guttural of Gaelic voices philosophising |
0:25.6 | about human responsibility and freedom. |
0:28.0 | Man is condemned to be free, says Sartre. |
0:30.3 | Discuss. |
0:31.6 | The serious talk we imagine would be of existentialism, a 20th century |
0:35.3 | philosophy concerned with the individual and his or her place within the world. |
0:39.4 | In novels, plays and philosophy, existentialists try to work out the nature of our existence. |
0:44.6 | As Rock Anton says in Sart's novel Nausea, to exist is simply to be there. |
0:49.4 | What exists appears lets itself be encountered, but you can never deduce it. But where did the existentialists come |
0:56.0 | from? What do they really mean? What impact did they have? With me to discuss existentialism is |
1:01.2 | Dr. A.C. Graling, reader in philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of |
1:04.8 | London. Dr. Christina Howe's professor of French at the University of Oxford, fellow |
1:08.8 | of Waddham College Oxford, an author of many books including Sartre at The Necessity of Freedom, |
1:13.2 | and Simon Critchley, professor of philosophy at the University of Essex, |
1:16.1 | and author of a companion to continental philosophy. |
1:18.8 | Anthony Grelly, do we look in the 19th century to find the roots of existentialism and what do we find when we look there? |
1:25.0 | What happened in the 19th century was there was an emerging sense that science which had made the world look like a mechanism governed by natural laws, had drained any external |
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